Tag: Campeche

  • Happy Halloween:  How to Visit Yucatán’s Incredible Bat Tornado (Volcano).

    Happy Halloween: How to Visit Yucatán’s Incredible Bat Tornado (Volcano).

    It’s Halloween, Day of the Dead, and (tomorrow) Día de los Muertos. All over Mexico (and even many other parts of the world), Catrinas (those delightful white skull faces, often elaborately colored and bejeweled) appear, the candy baskets are filled, costumes are worn. In so many ways Halloween is my…

  • Absolutely Perfect Flan in Campeche City

    Absolutely Perfect Flan in Campeche City

    Long before I ever arrived in Latin America, I was a fan of good flan. There’s something about the combination of custard and caramel (never enough caramel) that does magical things to me. But it wasn’t until I got to Campeche city that I found the flan I’d always been…